JUDGMENT
DR DATE-BAH JSC
The facts
To the joy of the many lovers of soccer in Ghana, Ghana won,in July 2004,the right to host the 2008 African Cup of Nations football tournament, popularly known as CAN 2008. This case is about one of the consequences of Ghana’s successful bid to host CAN 2008. As a result of winning the right to host CAN 2008, the Government of Ghana became obliged to rehabilitate football stadia and other sporting facilities in Ghana. In order to fulfill this obligation, it set in motion in January 2005 a procurement process for the award of appropriate contracts in accordance with the Public Procurement Act, 2003 (Act 663).
Vamed Engineering Gmbh and CO KG (referred to subsequently as ‘Vamed’) was one of the companies which submitted a tender for the award of a contract to rehabilitate the stadia specified by the Government of Ghana. Vamed became one of two companies which were shortlisted by the Government’s evaluation committee. Meanwhile, by a letter dated 1st July 2…